[And then there's that one woman who doesn't stare at his back as he trains on the salmon ladder like she wants to lick the sweat off him. (Because, ew.) And who isn't family, obviously, let's not talk as if Thea would -- anyway, that's not the point. She knows she's the newbie part of the team, only on it because Laurel sort of vouched for her first, and then Barry, and then officer Gordon sort of maybe sent captain Lance a message about the vigillante trying to take on the vicious criminals of Gotham on her own, and then Oliver Queen showed up and boom: team.
But she knows, alright, that she's new and she's got a history of exceptionally evil parents, and therefore has no place getting in Ollie's business but... he unfortunately makes it fun for her.]
You know the good part of this? [She pauses, and rips part of a licorice with her teeth, chewing quietly.] Is if you ever decided to get yourself out there a la Bruce Wayne, you could pull the tragic romance card.
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[Not all of the scars on Oliver's body are from deceased lovers. He's been shot, cut, burned, stabbed enough times that it creates a cover for the marks that really hurt. There's one for Sara, and another for Shado. Then there's the marks that haven't scarred over, because McKenna, Helena, Felicity and Laurel aren't dead (not yet, not if he has anything to do with it) and he loves them all in different ways, each mark has different shades of black and red and even if he knew which ones belonged to who, which mark has been black for most of his adult life and has varied, twisted, changed so many times, he's not going to say.
(it's laurel, it's always been laurel even when they fight and he says he's done believing her, he's not. he's carried the mark so long it's more a part of him than any of his other scars. even when there's a nearly matching mark for felicity that's slowly but surely turning back to red)
Oliver rolls his eyes at his new protege, and does a few more reps before he drops to the ground and bothers to respond to that.]
[Spoiler alert: he doesn't need to say. Way before coming to Starling city, back when she was sneaking out on dear old dad to clean the city (see, even then she sounded like her current mentor) she got by based on good detective work. Reading people. Laurel and Ollie in the same room is like a mute movie. You see it all, and get it all, without the text in between.
She throws him a bottle of water because she's so helpful, and with the licorice still in her teeth she goes back to sharpening each arrow tip one by one.]
You could always look for a sugar momma. Or plural. Or learn to live like the 99%.
[Yeah, just going to drink a third of that water bottle before he answers this time too. He's getting more than a little tired of people telling him that he should go out and date more because seriously? Look at his track record.]
I already work for free and live in an abandoned club. But I'm not looking for anything right now. I've got enough going on.
I'm multitasking! [Shnickt, goes the stone on the sharp edge of the arrow, sharpening more. She's multitasking, Ollie. You're doing it all the time, don't pretend like you don't think when you're doing pull ups.
She sets down another arrow in the quill -- his; Roy's quill is full and done, and only Artemis' is left after this -- and glances up at him.] Hey, answer me something. It's better to have the scars, or not to have the marks at all? [Because Artemis, she's clear of any of them.]
You do know. [She's quiet, and listen help her out Oliver. It's her...yeah, it's her way of saying that she wants to know what it's like. To get a mark. Of saying she regrets not getting one at all.]
[Oliver Queen is maybe the last person she wants to go to for romantic advice, honestly. Is it better to have loved or have never gotten a mark? For him or for them because that's vastly different. If you asked him, Sara and Shado would've been better off without ever having met him.]
I sometimes wonder if they still would be alive if it hadn't been for me. Actually, probably would be. So yeah, I regret that part. I regret playing a part in Shado and Sara's deaths.
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But she knows, alright, that she's new and she's got a history of exceptionally evil parents, and therefore has no place getting in Ollie's business but... he unfortunately makes it fun for her.]
You know the good part of this? [She pauses, and rips part of a licorice with her teeth, chewing quietly.] Is if you ever decided to get yourself out there a la Bruce Wayne, you could pull the tragic romance card.
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(it's laurel, it's always been laurel even when they fight and he says he's done believing her, he's not. he's carried the mark so long it's more a part of him than any of his other scars. even when there's a nearly matching mark for felicity that's slowly but surely turning back to red)
Oliver rolls his eyes at his new protege, and does a few more reps before he drops to the ground and bothers to respond to that.]
It'll go well with my tragically broke card.
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She throws him a bottle of water because she's so helpful, and with the licorice still in her teeth she goes back to sharpening each arrow tip one by one.]
You could always look for a sugar momma. Or plural. Or learn to live like the 99%.
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I already work for free and live in an abandoned club. But I'm not looking for anything right now. I've got enough going on.
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Don't you have something you could be doing?
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She sets down another arrow in the quill -- his; Roy's quill is full and done, and only Artemis' is left after this -- and glances up at him.] Hey, answer me something. It's better to have the scars, or not to have the marks at all? [Because Artemis, she's clear of any of them.]
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I don't know.
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You can compare.
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I sometimes wonder if they still would be alive if it hadn't been for me. Actually, probably would be. So yeah, I regret that part. I regret playing a part in Shado and Sara's deaths.